For Adam’s detailed explanation of his graphic piece, “The Three Degrees of Glory,” go here. If you would like to buy a print of “The Three Degrees of Glory,” go here.
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Adam K. K. Figueira was born to the east of where he lives now, but then went west, and back towards the middle [...]
Frequent WIZ contributor Karen Kelsay’s new book of poetry, Lavender Song, is out and available for sale here. Karen’s formalist poetry is a well-kept garden of lovely sensibilities. For samples of her work published on WIZ, go here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Writers: The deadline for Torrey House Press’s creative non-fiction contest is [...]
I wish you could infiltrate
My subliminal mind
But that will be like patting
A perfidious snake head—
Smooth, shiny but rough
For tender fingertips.
I have intoxicated many
And no more now.
Perhaps I’m tired
My tongue is hanging out
Without venom, motionless
Even in storms, out of power
Even to plead.
Now just a sense of knowing
Could cure me, rejuvenate
Me, purify me to be
A person again,
For [...]
The 7 o’ clock was hot again, hotter than any 7 o’ clock.
A drop of sweat travelling down my cheek
In search of destination stopped suddenly
And I rubbed it off, removing its existence.
I went up for a glass of glucose to see
Ants caving in there;
The glass had one inch water with dead ants floating—
Perhaps they have [...]
The shy eyes filled with metallic lustre ogle at me
in the moonlit night.
I try to fix my concentration
within the shining leaves of the tree.
The girl with a brown body,
green eyelids, a hundred arms is what I see.
She has a unique pose; bent back resting upon flat feet.
Dry hairs straight down to soil,
and the light song [...]
While WIZ loves poetry and heartily encourages poets to continue sending their nature-romancing verse, it’s perhaps time to follow nature’s own example of protean morphologies and bring more rhetorical diversity to the site. Hence, WIZ is issuing a call for short, creative non-fiction and fiction pieces. If you have a nature-oriented essay or field notes [...]
Like most folks, my husband, kids, and I greet spring’s arrival with relief. The relaxing of winter’s grip, the first crack of color between sepals clutching flower buds, the sun’s liberating warmth all lighten the load my family balances gingerly as we carry it through winter’s dimly-lit cellars. But as daylight’s gold, pink or orange [...]